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Likely not deleted. Just made private. If you look on the Google file system, it has no support for deleting files (data is overwritten) and Google itself has

Likely not deleted. Just made private. If you look on the Google file system, it has no support for deleting files (data is overwritten) and Google itself has a running business model around hoarding data, would make no sense to lose something that might be valuable to them in the future just for the sake of saving some storage.

sp332 11y ago
True. Doesn't help anyone else who wants to read the blogs though. And even thought the storage is redundant, the fact that it's controlled by a single company makes it a single point of failure. I also hope Geocities is around somewhere and is recovered at some point in the future.
- Namrog84 11y ago
  There were definitely some good things lost with geocities :(
- godshatter 11y ago
  A lot of Geocities was archived. You can access one of them at reocities.com. There is also a 650+ GB torrent out there containing the archived sites. It's still a work in progress, apparently, but perusing the "neighborhoods" on reocities.com brings back memories.
  - sp332 11y ago
    The torrent is not very good, and anyway there aren't really any seeds anymore. It's better to get it from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities This script makes downloading more convenient: http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3209 http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3209
    - godshatter 11y ago
      Nice, thanks for the links.
Tyr42 11y ago
I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. I can only speak about browser history sync, but it gets deleted after 6 weeks. Someone broke something and it was producing mangled data. 6 weeks was the "cliff" for when mangled data stopped being visible.
- nunobrito 11y ago
  You might be right, I'm always suspecting that they hoard as much data as they can. That would be a very googly thing to happen. Mangling data is an interesting thing you raise. Would reveal some issues with their professionalism. Albeit after the disaster we watched today on their April's 1st joke, I wouldn't be surprised if indeed that was the (sad) case as you mention.. :/

sp332 11y ago

True. Doesn't help anyone else who wants to read the blogs though. And even thought the storage is redundant, the fact that it's controlled by a single company makes it a single point of failure. I also hope Geocities is around somewhere and is recovered at some point in the future.

Namrog84 11y ago
There were definitely some good things lost with geocities :(
godshatter 11y ago
A lot of Geocities was archived. You can access one of them at reocities.com. There is also a 650+ GB torrent out there containing the archived sites. It's still a work in progress, apparently, but perusing the "neighborhoods" on reocities.com brings back memories.
- sp332 11y ago
  The torrent is not very good, and anyway there aren't really any seeds anymore. It's better to get it from the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities This script makes downloading more convenient: http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3209 http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3209
  - godshatter 11y ago
    Nice, thanks for the links.

Tyr42 11y ago

I'm pretty sure you're mistaken. I can only speak about browser history sync, but it gets deleted after 6 weeks. Someone broke something and it was producing mangled data. 6 weeks was the "cliff" for when mangled data stopped being visible.

nunobrito 11y ago
You might be right, I'm always suspecting that they hoard as much data as they can. That would be a very googly thing to happen. Mangling data is an interesting thing you raise. Would reveal some issues with their professionalism. Albeit after the disaster we watched today on their April's 1st joke, I wouldn't be surprised if indeed that was the (sad) case as you mention.. :/